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From Ronaldo to Wilkinson to learn the need to have a pre-shot routine

Cristiano Ronaldo and Jonny Wilkinson show us with their ability in kicking the ball how important it is to have a routine whenever you are in a position to make a free kick in soccer or rugby. The video you find highlights the similarities between these two players and the need to train this skill. How many coaches teach their athletes following this procedure? In just a few!

Jonny Wilkinson mind

Some ideas from Jonny Wilkinson new book (Rugby quantique, with Etienne Klein e Jean Iliopoulos) useful for our reflexions.

“During the coaching you should do your very best. Means that it is not enough to pass the ball between the posts, but exactly in the middle.”
“Even before I kick, I feel the point at which I will be in contact with the ball. In my mind I see the exact trajectory of the ball.”
“The reason why I train mentally, is that in this way I can have a workout absolutely perfect.”
“I am never satisfied with what I do on the field. For this reason I continue to work after training with sessions of two or three hours. My goal is to create a confidence climate around me, to build strong and useful habits  supporting me. ”
“Rugby is the real team play, yes. As I said, we are always connected. It’s impossible to have the opportunity to score a punishment without the men in the fray.”
“Some time ago I read that the best way to achieve our goals is to help others achieve theirs. I am deeply convinced.”

Wilkinson and the quantum physics: an unbelievable book

The first news is that Jonny Wilkinson is passionate about quantum physics. “All my life I have been obsessed with achieving perfection and was disappointed. Until one day I started looking for another way to get a different perception of the world and my work. First of all, I turned to Buddhism (…). And shortly after I found out that there were ties between my work and quantum physics. “In particular, to have fascinated Wilko is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The German scientist said that in certain fields natural laws do not lead to a complete determination of what happens in space and time, the occurrence depends form the game of chance. “If even in quantum physics not everything is controllable, Wilkinson must have thought, why should it be rugby? Better to relax.” There’s a first level that you can handle: the ball. If you kick the ball a hundred thousand times, in the end I can reach the same result in the game. And little by little I feel I can control everything. Then there is a second level, in which many things are inscrutable, in which another part of me is called into question, the part about instinct, deep emotions. And that’s where I can really be myself, connect to the world, and even learn something new.” So it turns out that, paradoxically, for Jonny the kick is the least interesting of rugby. At one point, describes him as “a work from postman.”